Humane Leadership Advisory

Humane Leadership Advisory supports leaders as they navigate the challenges and opportunities of their work. By exploring foundational notions and habits, leaders clarify their next steps and accelerate along their path to greater effectiveness, better decisions, and more purposeful actions.

Approach

Leaders unfold a more effective and humane approach by:

Exploring the status quo in circumstances, habits, and mental models.

Discovering opportunities for rapid shifts in actions, results, and experience.

Designing performance improvement experiments based on 360-degree peer reviews before, during and after our advisory work.

Engaging in real projects they help design to stretch their skills and deliver measurable, visible results to the organization.

Most powerfully, your coaching enables me to step back from my closely-held perspectives and beliefs.

You ask relevant and poignant questions so I can consider (with curiosity and safety) other possibilities.

Benefits

Effective, humane performance improvement practices and tools that drive results over a lifetime:

Team performance improvement

Engagement, earned influence and authority

System and process design

Financial leadership

Persuasion and strategic messaging

Critical thinking, data and analysis

Executive advisory typically consists of two one-hour meetings with your coach per month. These meetings can be virtual or live depending on your location. Engagements to be a minimum of 3 months and up to years of shared opportunities and growth.

Stephen is easily my favorite mentor and business associate.

His ability to help others along the pathway of life and business in a way that expands and nurtures them and those around them, and that also keeps them focused on their true values and priorities, is as far as I can tell, incomparable.

— Steve Rice, Dot Com Jungle

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Advisory Case Studies

Case 1 - Promotion

Situation:

Promotion required the leader earn influence and prove the value of contributions across siloed, unfamiliar business units and teams.

Setting:

Large Hospital

Advisory client work:

Bi-weekly advisory calls to introduce a framework for earning influence. Advisory on clarifying relevant and unique opportunities to become visible to senior leadership. Clarification of materials and approaches to earning influence with senior leadership.

Outcomes:

Invitation to work directly with C-suite to drive strategic transformation initiatives across business units.

Case 2 - Leader Frustration

Situation:

Leader frustration with team underperformance

Setting:

Software design and development

Advisory client work:

Working with the leader and his team, we collected data on the current state of processes, systems, skills and outcomes. A new framework was introduced and adopted over time via both advisory and team training work. New pace and focus of communications helped the team clarify, prioritize and drive their own work and contribution margin.

Outcomes:

Dramatic improvement in client satisfaction. profitability of the team, as well as leader and team experience of daily work. Team resolving their own conflicts and find optimizations based on shared values and models.

Case 3 - Crisis

Weekly advisory meetings on financial analysis and coaching to tee up strategic decisions around market strategy. Advisory on complex decisions to balance personal and stakeholder needs across staff, creditors, investors and the community. Financial and communications advisory around minimizing relationship impacts and maximizing enterprise value at cessation of operations.

Outcomes:

Partners, investors and staff amicably aligned on a path forward. All creditors paid as agreed.

Case 4 - Team Frustration

Situation:

Team frustration with unclear, shifting, weak senior leadership.

Setting:

Medical devices

Advisory client work:

After 360o feedback and analysis, top leader was unwilling to address his own challenges, so we worked with middle management to build the clear priorities, processes and systems they needed to deliver results.

Outcomes:

Record revenues with fewer, more values-aligned employees. Improved employee experience and lower turnover than anticipated.

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We would enjoy learning about your situation and vision for what’s next. Reach out and we’ll find a time to learn more about you.